186 [Assembly 



INSTANCES. 



James Simpson, of White Clay Hundred, had raised 103 bushels 

 of wheat from two and three-quarter acres. E. Bellah, of Brawdy- 

 wine Hundred, 39 bushels per acre, on a field of ninety acres. This 

 was sown among standing corn in July, and cultivated in. R. Mill- 

 ward of Peucador Hundred, raised 37 bushels per acre, on a field of 

 36 acres, on land purchased a short time since at ^ISper acre, when 

 it "Would not produce more than 5 bushels per acre. 



The manures used were about 200 bushels of shell marl, and, 10 

 one horse cart-loads of Philadelphia compost, the refuse of a glue- 

 •boiling establishment. 



Joseph Deihl, of St, George's Hundred, produced 30 bushels per 

 acre, on a lot of seven acres. His crop was much injured in thresh- 

 ing. It was a beautiful variety of white wheat, and sold for $1.25 

 per bushel, for seed. This crop was sown on the same day with an 

 adjoining .lot, sown with red chaflf wheat, obtained from a distance 

 expressly for the experiment ; the result was, the white produced 

 nearly double the quantity of the red, and of much better quality. 

 The red was much affected by rust ; the white not at all. 



Many of our farmers have adopted the improved mode of enriching 

 and cultivating their farms, and have consequently largely increased 

 their productiveness. 



The corn crop is not as good as that of wheal. The early planting 

 has not done as well as the later. 



Oats is scarcely a half crop, and inferior at that. 



The extreme drought cut off our hay crop at least one-half. 



Potatoes, as last year, short crop. 



Beets and Ruta-bagas, but few raised — corn being considered belter 

 food both for man and beast. 



Buckwheat appears abundant. So great has been the advance, par- 

 ticularly in the production of wheat, thai the secretary of the "Home 

 Department," the Commissioner of Patents, will have lo alter his re- 

 port for this State very materially. 



